Webinar: Turn around your urgent SARs in rapid time: New tools and support for SABs

Recording 25 August 2020, 11.30am – 2.30pm

COVID-19 creates a new urgency to identifying and sharing learning from certain cases. The Care Act gives Safeguarding Adult Boards (SABs) freedom to determine what activities make up a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR), and SABs routinely commission SARs that are ‘proportionate’ to the learning that they are anticipated to generate. However, noone has been conducting SARs in timescales equivalent to the ‘rapid reviews’ now required for serious safeguarding incidents involving children: 15 working days.

As part of Department of Health and Social Care’s COVID-19 Action Plan for Social Care, SCIE has worked with SABs to develop and test a new model for conducting SARs In Rapid Time. In this webinar we will launch the model and accompanying tools, sharing feedback from the first two test SARs using the new approach and open a discussion about the kinds of cases where speed trumps comprehensiveness of analysis.

The webinar will discuss:

• Share the rationale for, and background to, a SAR In Rapid Time.
• Introduce the model and accompanying tools.
• Present feedback from the first two test SARs In Rapid Time.
• Discuss the types of cases where the need for speed trumps comprehensiveness of analysis.

Speakers:

• Dr. Sheila Fish (Head of Learning Together, SCIE)
• Simon Bayliss (Practice Development Manager for Safeguarding, SCIE).